Those are known evils I know how to deal with, that are popular enough that there are foss tools to handle them.

But I’m being a bit hyperbolic here. I’m not as paranoid as I’m portraying myself… I just don’t have any motivation to click this particular risky link.

Why risk it?

As a fellow comp sci graduate (different uni, long time ago) that doesn’t fill me with a ton of confidence lol.

This could actually be a study on phishing lol
Or a less ethical study on virus propagation
Or maybe he has just gone rogue and his university hasn’t noticed because they probably don’t actually monitor what students are hosting very closely, as long as it’s not causing problematic network traffic.\

I doubt it, but I’m still not gonna click a link that someone is asking me to click lol

I self host for the same reason I’m not clicking some random link: distrust lol

Do you have to back up everything off site?

Maybe there are just a few critical files you need a disaster recovery plan for, and the rest is just covered by your raidz

We’re gonna go ahead and merge the gardening community with this one 😌

Self hosting a tree

It can be a few things.

It could be remote workspaces like GitHub codespaces.

But it could also be simpler: vscode is a web app, the native app you install is just an electron wrapper around the web app; so you can host it on a server an use it in the browser.

“use” might be a stretch.

I have a mastodon account I check occasionally
I have a pixelfed account I use rarely
And a loops account I think I logged into once

I only see one title and one post body; what happens if 3 people share the same link but with 3 different titles and description bodies?

Do they get merged, does one get arbitrarily selected, or does this only work on posts with identical link+title+body?

But they were still users who were active in that half-year, so even when they went offline it shouldn’t have resulted in a dip

This graph doesn’t make sense to me. The drops on the two graphs shouldn’t line up, right? Make me sus

That’s a very reddit thing to say

I love it

What about item damage?
Items have hit points, you can damage them… I’m assuming that counts?

Although idk if I’m ready to switch to the new rules mid-campaign

I really like that.

Although this is exactly what the familiar I’m trying to deal with is good at; I’ll have to think of something that fits the campaign aesthetics and is also able to counter an invisible flying nuisance lol. Maybe they’ll have to encounters more pact of the chain warlocks themselves lol

That is correct, and their imp is supposed to be quite powerful. But the resulting gameplay is kinda like stealth archer to the nth degree lol. I’m still trying figure out how to make it fun for both them while also giving the other players a fun experience and provide meaningful interesting challenges to the whole party

I don’t want my encounters to be lethal, I don’t like killing off PCs… But I do want the encounters to be a challenge.

I like your idea, but idk if I’m experienced enough to pull it off. Also I’m running a premade campaign right now so a lot of the encounters are pre-defined, at least in nature; I can tip the scales but I don’t think I’m comfortable yet with changing how the encounters work.

Their familiar is an imp, so it gets invisibility as an action, so it doesn’t cost them a spell slot or any spell uses. The familiar is basically always invisible and flying. I do need to pay more attention to how it’s flying, though - it needs to be shape shifted into a raven, so polymorphing would break concentration, and raven flight isn’t silent and cannot hover. Thanks for making me take a deeper look here. Edit: oh wait, imps can fly without shapeshifting

Unfortunately they’re thinking so far outside the box that I’m having difficulty balancing encounters 😭

One player can two shot a fire giant from a safe distance, yet a decent sized pack of giant rats would probably fuck up the whole party.